Sources: Rockets are on pace to trade Asik

Summary of 8 articles · Updated Dec 19, 2013

What’s important is that Asik is a Rocket for now, the Rockets don’t very much like Omer Asik right now, and the Houston Rockets don’t really play all that well with Asik on the floor right now. The Rockets have been telling rival teams for two weeks that… (more) they will trade Asik by Thursday, and according to sources close to the process, they gradually continued to move in that direction Wednesday. The Houston Rockets, as they've been telling teams all month, remain on course to trade disgruntled big man Omer Asik by Thursday, according to sources close to the process. 19 personal trade deadline in any transaction for Asik, as it would allow either his front office or the team that traded for the big center to potentially trade Asik again on trade deadline day after a two-month wait, as per NBA bylaws. But to steal Asik away from the Chicago Bulls in restricted free agency in 2012, Houston structured its offer sheet to the Turkish big man so that he'd receive a whopping payout of $15 million in 2014-15, even though Asik only counts against the salary cap for roughly $8.4 million. As a result, the Celtics now are widely regarded as the strongest rivals to the Philadelphia 76ers in terms of likely destinations for Asik, with many rival executives expecting the final form of a trade built around the 7-footer from Turkey to feature at least three teams. Other players would have to be involved in such a trade to make the salary-cap math work, but it's the sort of trade that would fall in line with Cleveland's well-kno

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